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Singer of the Week: City and Colour

2011-04-10T16:57:00.003+03:00

"at the end of the day it's you, as much as you believe in something else, it's you and the faith in yourself..."-Dallas Green

In 2001, Dallas Green was known for his sensitive and delicate voice and as a part of the band Alexisonfire, one of the most famous bands in Canada. Now he plays under the name of "City and Colour", sometimes with Daniel Romano and Spencer Burton.

Releasing 2 albums "Sometimes"-2005 and "Bring me your love"-2008 and also 2 Ep's "The death of me"-2004 and "Missing"-2005, the band won 2 Juno Awards and 1 MuchMusic Video Award.

Singer of the Week: Sarah Jaffe

2011-03-22T10:01:00.004+02:00

"music makes me feel at ease and gets out my emotions.”-Sarah Jaffe

The 25-years-old singer from Denton, Texas, began her music career with a self released EP,"Even Born Again"(2008), and later on an album called "Suburban Nature"(2010). This year, she released one more EP called "The way sound leaves a room".

The album "Suburban Nature" was recorded in an old house, described better by the lyrics "50 states. 50 lines. 50 crying all the time's. 50 boys. 50 lies. 50 i'm gonna change my mind's"-Clementine, telling deeply personal stories of her life.

She is capable of feeling epic softness, delicately, proving us one more how vulnerable people are in the face of love or loneliness : "Put your hands over my eyes..I'm happy to be blind"-Stay with me.

Singer of the Week: Angus & Julia Stone

2011-03-15T15:22:00.005+02:00

"The world is down to people’s human emotions and what they are going through rather than where they’re from.” Angus and Julia

Angus and Julia Stone are a brother/sister duo from Sydney, Australia. Their debut album "A book like this"(2007) reached the UK top and earned the platinum for the 70,000 copies sold. The next album was self-produced "Down the way" and was released in 2010.
Their breathtaking songs about love, filled with sadness and joy, accompanied by acoustic guitars and gentle piano, can't fail to touch you.

Bernard Zuel described : "Her voice has a fractured feel like Jolie Holland; his has a smoke-on-the-beach drawl."

Singer of the week: Lhasa de Sela

2011-03-07T20:44:00.000+02:00

"I know a song sung at the right moment can be such a very powerful thing"- Lhasa de Sela

Born in New York, daughter of a Mexican father and Americam mother, Lhasa started to sing at the age of 13 in a Greek cafe. At the age of 19, she moved to Montreal and started recording. Her 3 albums: "La llorona"-1997, "The living road"-2003 and her last one "Lhasa", are in 3 different languages: Spanish, French and English.

The album "Lhasa" is a different style from what we knew, her deeply emotional voice approaches intimate folk compositions and the instruments are a little unusual: harp, guitar, pedal steel, bass and piano.

Months later after her album is released, she dies of breast cancer. Even if she died, her music is still with us.

Singer of the week: Bon Iver

2011-02-25T09:08:00.003+02:00

"It’s not about giving back. I think it’s about getting on your hands and knees and digging out what it already has. It’s in us. It’s in the town. It’s in the land. It’s in the people. It’s in the music. I think it just needs breathing room."- Justin Vernon

American band, Bon Iver, consista of Justin Vernon, Mike Noyce, Sean Carey and Matt MacCaughan. The name comes from a French play named "bon hiver"-good winter. The singles from the 2006 album "For Emma, Forever ago", a record he had made himself the previous year, over three months, while living in a hunting cabin, entered the UK Official Singles Chart.

Singer of the week:Lou Rhodes

2011-02-15T11:38:00.005+02:00

Sometimes I think, "My God, I keep writing all these love songs," and I really struggle with that. I think I'm a bit of an emotional junkie, you know? It seems to be what consumes me. The heart never ceases to provide me with subject matter. I don't know why that is. Someone asked me the other day, "Are you in love with being in love?" And I couldn't really answer that question. -Lou Rhodes

Lou Rhodes, former lead singer of electronic group Lamb, left her band and realeased her own solo folk albums: 2006- Beloved One, 2007-Bloom, 2010- One good thing.

Her music is very intimate, passionate, soothing, expressed from the heart, mostly with guitars, sometimes with a fluite, violin or piano.

Singer of the week: Ani DiFranco

2011-02-07T08:00:00.005+02:00

"we're 90% metaphor with a leanness of meaning, approaching hyper-distillation" - Ani DiFranco

Poet, SongWriter, Singer, Grammy Winner, Activist, Ani DiFranco isn't just the singer of a week. Through her music she speaks about racism, hypocrisy, homophobia, women's rights, but her voice is better described by the Vanity Fair magazine as "like the murmur of a lover who knows every last secret and decides to stay.”

“ She’s got the gift of lyrical precision—nothing cuts to the core quite like the resolution of DiFranco rhyme.” —Billboard

Singer of the week: Sharon Van Etten

2011-02-03T12:26:00.003+02:00

"Sharon Van Etten plays bittersweet neofolk so slow, spare and subtle that you might have to crane your neck to hear it. The Brooklyn songsmith’s tunes are definitely worth the effort.” – Time Out New York

At the age of 25 she left her town and her boyfriend to make music in New York. Asked what her music sounds like, Sharon answered:" Folk. Really simple guitar. I try to focus on the melodies and try to make everything else minimal. The melody and the lyrics are most important to me."